Washington Caps coach Bruce Boudreau – the former Manchester coach – got uncharacteristically heated with reporters Thursday when discussing the celebration by Alex Ovechkin after his 50th goal. Boudreau was asked if he figured Tampa would seek retribution, and that’s when he lost it. Click here for more.

There will be a live chat for the Kings-Stars game tonight. I’ve just scheduled it to start at 5 p.m.. I won’t be able to host it since I will be at the World Figure Skating Championships, but I will monitor it every once in a while. Keep it clean! Thanks and have fun.

From hockey to figure skating? The World Figure Skating Championships are at Staples Center this week, and American Brandon Mroz is a pretty good story. As a kid, he was the ultimate hockey player. He loved to skate but didn’t get to do it much because he also loved to get in fights and was always in the penalty box. So, Mroz’s parents moved him to figure skating. Now, the former goon is doing quadruple toe loops. I’ll have a column on Mroz in tomorrow’s paper. The Kings aren’t going to make the playoffs, so we can have a little fun on the blog.

The Stars’ center Brad Richards returned Saturday after missing 15 games with a broken wrist, then broke his other hand in his return. Talk about bad luck. He’s out indefinitely. Dallas could’ve used him in this late playoff push, but the Stars do have a game against the Kings tonight.

Is this really the best time to be advertising for 2009-10 season tickets? The front page of the Kings Web Site says “Buy or Renew Season Tickets Today” …. meanwhile, the Kings are going to miss the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year.

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Elliott Teaford is an award-winning hockey reporter based in Southern California and witnessed the L.A. Kings win the Stanley Cup in 2012 and in '14. He grew up playing outdoors on the streets of Philadelphia. He also watched the Flyers bully their way to consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1970s, and makes no excuses for their quasi-legal play.

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